Articles tagged: screw ups

If there’s one place where you should be able to trust the gear you buy, it’s at an official team store. There’s no knock-off stuff there. You won’t find any of that unauthorized, non-authentic junk there. But, occasionally, you will find mistakes. Every clothing store has an item or two with a manufacturer error. And…Read More

The Seattle Seahawks really put on a show against the San Diego Chargers on Friday night. Russell Wilson and the first-team offense had their team up 24-0 before calling it a night in the second quarter. The domination Seattle showed, albeit in the preseason, was probably summed up best by the folks at NFL.com. What's…Read More

ESPN sent an extremely unfortunate tweet from their NASCAR account on Thursday afternoon. Funeral services for the late Kevin Ward Jr. were held on Thursday in upstate New York, where more than 700 mourners flooded South Lewis Senior High School to pay their respects. Here is the tweet NASCAR on ESPN sent and quickly deleted,…Read More

Remember how we all had laughs at the Mets’ expense a few days ago when they screwed up a toy truck giveaway by giving away at least one W.B. Mason truck that had a Phillies logo on it? Looks like they were not alone. The Phillies are also sponsored by W.B. Mason and had a…Read More

Ooph! When it comes to epic screwups, this is up there. CBS News sent a tweet during Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game linking to a story about Derek Jeter, who just so happened to be the biggest focus of the entire game. The only problem is they screwed up his name. Badly. What do you think,…Read More

Considering Samsung mobile devices are designed to bring you stuff like emails, text messages and news as quickly as possible, I can’t really think of a worse promotion than the one Samsung Mobile Arabia ran on Sunday morning. The official Samsung Mobile Arabia Twitter page has been tweeting photos of some of the world’s best…Read More

The Indiana Pacers were able to defeat the Miami Heat in Game 5 on Wednesday night to keep their season alive. After the Heat took a commanding 3-1 series lead on Monday, many — myself included — expected them to wrap up the series. It looks like some of the programmers at SportsCenter did as…Read More

The Golden State Warriors sent out an email to season ticket holders on Tuesday to inform them of the Mark Jackson firing. Only there was one pretty big oversight. In the subject line for the email, the Warriors screwed up by saying they had beaten the Clippers and were now offering tickets for the second…Read More